Frontier Developments has released the Elite: Dangerous Alpha 3.0 for all
backers and purchasers of Elite: Dangerous, the latest prerelease installment in
the upcoming space combat remake. As demonstrated in a
new tutorial video,
this adds docking to the game. Here's word: "After successfully proving out the
moment to moment combat gameplay, and multiplayer technology in Alpha phases one
and two respectively, phase three starts to move towards building out the game
by adding docking, an early version of hyperspace jumps between multiple
locations and ship outfitting within an iconic Coriolis space station. Once
successfully docked in the station – a notoriously difficult skill to master in
the original Elite – Elite: Dangerous Alpha phase three offers progression where
players can use their honest profit or ill-gotten gains from their in-game
actions to improve their ship."

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Task wrote on Mar 15, 2014, 11:52:Pretty impressive that they seem to have the illusion of physics working. Looks cool how you have to align your ship as a station rotates, and when you are inside of it you are then affected by its artificial gravity as it rotates.

I had to cringe in that video below, watching that person had no idea how to use a joystick in a 3D plane. I suppose that's what it looks like when I play certain console games, since I suck with console controllers.

Yeah that person in that video looked like she was pretty new to these type of games. Flying at max speed while looking at the side monitors etc.Flying with the joystick will take a bit of getting used to that's for sure. I haven't used that thing for years.